Cloud: It sure is raining hard.
Cloud (goes to a seated soldier): Hey, how are you doing?
He waves a 'never mind'.
Cloud: I wouldn't know. I've never had motion sickness.
Cloud (goes to the other): Everything okay?
Sephiroth: Hey.
Cloud turns.
Sephiroth: Settle down.
Cloud does squats.
Cloud: They gave me some new Materia. I can't wait to use it.
Sephiroth: ...Just like a kid.
Cloud stops.
Cloud: You going to brief us about this mission?
Sephiroth: This isn't a typical mission.
Cloud: Good!
Sephiroth: Why do you say that?
Cloud (turns away): I joined SOLDIER to be like you. But by the time I made First Class, the war was already over. My big hopes of becoming a hero like you ended with the war. That's why I always sign up whenever there's a big mission. Kind of a way to prove myself.
Cloud: Say, how do you feel, MISTER Sephiroth?
Sephiroth: ...I thought you wanted a briefing?
Cloud listens.
Sephiroth: Our mission is to investigate an old Mako reactor.
Sephiroth: There have been reports of it malfunctioning, and producing brutal creatures. First, we will dispose of those creatures. Then, we'll locate the problem and neutralize it.
Cloud thinks.
Cloud: Brutal creatures? Where?
Sephiroth: The Mako Reactor at Nibelheim.
Cloud: Nibelheim...
Cloud: That's where I'm from.
Sephiroth (nods): Hmm... hometown...
There is a disturbance. The driver turns.
Sir...s, something strange just crashed into the truck!
Sephiroth stands.
Sephiroth: That would be our Monster...
Battle Dragon
Kalm Inn
Cloud: Sephiroth's strength is incredible. He is far stronger in reality than any stories you may have heard about him.
Aerith: So... Where do you come in?
Cloud: Me? I was mesmerized by the way Sephiroth fought.
Tifa (looks up): ...
Cloud (looks up, also): ...And then we reached Nibelheim.
Nibelheim entrance
Sephiroth walks on, and turns to the camera.
Sephiroth: How does it feel?
He turns toward Nibelheim.
Sephiroth: It's your first time back to your hometown in a long time, right?
Sephiroth: So how does it feel? I wouldn't know because I don't have a hometown...
Cloud: Ummm... how 'bout your parents?
Sephiroth: My mother if Jenova. She died right after she gave birth to me. My father...
He laughs and shakes his head.
Sephiroth: What does it matter?
Sephiroth: All right, let's go.
The rest of the group enters.
* Right: Psst... (You keep wondering around out here and you'll get in trouble.)
* Left: Being on watch is so boring.
* You want to do what we always do?
Cloud: Shall we practice?
The guard looks up. The other watches him.
Practice? Oh, you mean practice my pose. Do members of SOLDIER always have to worry about what others think? How did it go?
He poses.
...Was it like this?
The other guard copies him.
Cloud (nods): Good job!
They relax.
I really don't want to be in SOLDIER.
* Just sit tight, it's your job, right?
Cloud: I'll come and talk to you once in a while. Just stick with it.
* Sephiroth: The Mako smells pretty bad here.
* Leave
Fade out.
Barret: Yo wait a minute!!
Fade in.
Barret: Isn't that, uh...?
Barret: The name of Sephiroth's mother...
Kalm Inn
Barret: I remember Jenova. That's that damn headless spook livin' in the Shinra building.
Cloud: That's right.
Tifa: Barret, would you please let us hear what Cloud has to say? You can ask questions later.
Barret: Tifa, I was only...
Tifa (to Cloud): OK Cloud, continue.
Aerith: The childhood friends reunite!
Cloud: ...I was really surprised with Tifa.
